Train driver in shock after hitting car left on tracks

AURIZON is fuming about the idiocy that forced the driver of a 10,000 tonne train to collide with an abandoned vehicle in Gladstone.

Aurizon vice-president safety, health and environment Neil Backer said the idiotic behaviour had endangered lives and the mental health of the driver.

"Our drivers were simply going about their jobs, and now they are left with the sickening memory of having struck a car on the tracks, at the time having no knowledge of whether or not it had occupants," he said.